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Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg ( listen (help·info)), known universally as Paul von Hindenburg (German: [ˈpaʊl fɔn ˈhɪndənbʊɐ̯k] ( listen); 2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934.
Hindenburg enjoyed a long career in the Prussian Army, retiring in 1911. He was recalled at the outbreak of World War I, and first came to national attention, at the age of 66, as the victor at Tannenberg in 1914. As Germany's Chief of the General Staff from 1916, he and his deputy, Erich Ludendorff, rose in the German public's esteem until Hindenburg came to eclipse the Kaiser himself.[citation needed] Hindenburg retired again in 1919, but returned to public life one more time in 1925 to be elected as the second President of Germany.
Though 84 years old and in poor health, Hindenburg was persuaded to run for re-election in 1932, as he was considered the only candidate who could defeat Adolf Hitler. Hindenburg was re-elected in a runoff. Although he was opposing Hitler, the deteriorating political stability of the Weimar Republic let him play an important role in the Nazi Party's rise to power. He dissolved the parliament twice in 1932 and eventually appointed Hitler as Chancellor in January 1933. In February, he issued the Reichstag Fire Decree which suspended various civil liberties, and in March he signed the Enabling Act, in which the parliament gave Hitler's administration legislative powers. Hindenburg died the following year, after which Hitler declared the office of President vacant and, as "Führer und Reichskanzler", made himself head of state.
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939 (World War II), and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; but, as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war). These alliances both reorganised (Italy fought for the Allies), and expanded as more nations entered the war. Ultimately more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of enormous increases in lethality of weapons, thanks to new technology, without corresponding improvements in protection or mobility. It was the sixth-deadliest conflict in world history, subsequently paving the way for various political changes such as revolutions in the nations involved.
Actors: Bernd Fischerauer (actor), Rainer Basedow (actor), Bernd Fischerauer (writer), Eva-Maria Kurz (actress), Hannes Michael Schalle (composer), Bernd Fischerauer (director), Thure Riefenstein (actor), Mathieu Carrière (actor), Gerald Alexander Held (actor), Marion Mitterhammer (actress), Katrin Pollitt (actress), Thomas Oláh (costume designer), Klaus Gietinger (writer), Bibiana Beglau (actress), Dominik Bender (actor),
Plot: The focus is on the years 1932-1933 the rise of Adolf Hitler as a politician, which eventually led to his dictatorship and the Nazi-Regime. Hitler had to fight many obstacles and setbacks, it almost seemed impossible for his party to ever gain power, but his ruthless determination and versatile diplomacy combined with his opponents dramatic mistakes and many coincidences finally led him to power. With Hitler's appointment as the 30th Chancellor January 1933 begins the end of the Weimar Republic. Within months he abolished press freedom, suspended fundamental rights, established the first concentration camps. With the Enabling Act he dis-empowers the Parliament, and the Nazi party is the only party. In June 1934, Hitler can kill his former comrades Röhm and his opponents Strasser and Schleicher. Five years it will take until the beginning of World War II and the way that led to the greatest crimes of the 20th Century has been prepared.
Genres: History,Actors: Jürgen Tarrach (actor), Bernd Fischerauer (director), Hans-Michael Rehberg (actor), Mathieu Carrière (actor), Hannes Michael Schalle (composer), Bernd Fischerauer (writer), Osman Ragheb (actor), Serge Avedikian (actor), Bruno F. Apitz (actor), Gerald Alexander Held (actor), Rainer Basedow (actor), Bernd Fischerauer (actor), Marion Mitterhammer (actress), Adriana Altaras (actress), Katrin Pollitt (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Friedrich W. Bauschulte (actor), Karl John (actor), Walter Jokisch (actor), Werner Kreindl (actor), Erik Ode (actor), Günter Pfitzmann (actor), Franz Schafheitlin (actor), Ernst Schröder (actor), Herbert Stass (actor), Ludwig Cremer (director), Hans Caninenberg (actor), Paul Dahlke (actor), Rudolf Fernau (actor), Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (actor), Hans W. Hamacher (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ernst Pröckl (actor), Hans Stüwe (actor), Hertha von Walther (actress), Georg H. Schnell (actor), Käthe Haack (actress), Wolfgang Staudte (actor), Fritz Alberti (actor), Valy Arnheim (actor), Viktor de Kowa (actor), Alfred Gerasch (actor), Carl Auen (actor), Aruth Wartan (actor), Friedrich Ettel (actor), Heinz Paul (director), Heinz Paul (writer),
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